Beekeeping is an ancient art and fascinating, and we believe that agriculture
and beekeeping must be harmonized between them because the nature, from the dawn of the world, had already made it, implicitly complementary and inseparable. Organic is a healthy choice that leads us to respect nature and their lives, making us rediscover the techniques of traditional agriculture. Today, in our fields, all wild
pollinators are disappearing because of "challenging chemistry" launched by man to the environment through pesticides. The bee, bred by man as it is as a renewable resource, is likely to remain the
only "postman" of pollen, although in turn, is affected by the same toxic molecules that are killing other insects. The disappearance of the "flight stopovers of pol1ine" would result in a real
ecological catastrophe, a collapse of agricultural production without historical precedent. For this reason, along with the curiosity and passion for our friends the bees, we decided to host some
families of bees in our gardens.

Bee and Agriculture

Bee does not just donate honey, pollen, propolis, beeswax, royal jelly, but
is at the service of agriculture to conduct the business of pollination.

We usually think of insects as dangerous enemies of our crops, to be fought
by all means and without pity, however many of them and especially the bee, are laborers without pay at the service of the farmer, and provide for free their work.

Higher plants, have mostly of flowers that have an apparatus "feminine", the
pistil, and the "male", the stamens. Because plants convolino the lawful marriage is necessary that the pollen content in the bags stamiferi, going to fall on the stigma at the top of the pistil, and
germinate. The logical thing to think about is that the flower, hermaphrodite is, "loves himself '" and "autofecondi". For about Darwin, however, we know that the marriage between close relatives -
and a hermaphrodite is certainly a very close relative of himself - the emergence, in the long run, the harmful effects. So, the pollen of a flower is kindly requested by Mother Nature to go to
pollinate another flower, a plant sister. Insects are the "gallant secretaries", the messengers of love of flowers that allow the reproduction of plants and thus the production of the
fruit.

This biologic survival "help" (the scientific term is "symbiosis") provides
an exchange of gifts: the insect allows the wedding flowers, and the flowers they offer him a reward: nectar, rich in sugar and pollen rich of protein. In short, the flowers fertilize, and the
insects they feed on. Basically, it happens that the insect, come on the flower, the spropri of nectar and pollen, but is littered simultaneously a myriad of pollen grains that are "glued" to his
body. Passing on another flower is fatal that pollen "overflows" on the new stigma, and to occur so the fertilization of more plants sisters, distant between them in space.